Improvement in washing-machines



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MPETEHS, FHQTO-UTHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT. OFFICE.

THADDEUS C. HISTED, OF JUNCTION CITY, KANSAS, ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE L. MEDDICK, SANFORD C. MEDDICK, AND MARGARET E. HISTED, OF SAME PLACE, ONE-THIRD TO EACH.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 218,970, dated August 26, 1879 application filed May 23, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, THADDEUS C. Hrs'rED, of J unction City, in the county of Da vis and State of Kansas, have invented a new and Improved Washing-Machine, of which the following is a specification.

Figure I is a front elevat-ion of the machine. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional elevation in line fr x, Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a plan ofthe upper face of the false bottom of the tub. Fig. eiis a plan of the reverse face of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The invention relates to Washing-machines in which beaters are employed in connection with a rotated-tub; and consists in the pecaliar construction and relative arrangement of parts, as hereinafter described.

A represents a frame, to Whose lower cross timber is pivoted the circular carrier B, that is provided on its under surface with an annular series of teeth, a', in which engages the pinion C, by which it is revolved, and in the shaft b', on which is the pulley D. Set upon the upper face of this carrier and movably secured is the disk E, upon which is placed the tub F, for containing the clothes, and Which is movably secured to the disk.

Within the tub is a false or movable bottom, G, grooved radially oneither side, as shown, to admit of a circulation of water through the clothes and tub. Within the perpendicularlygrooved standards of the frame A the beaterframe H, carrying four beaters, Lrnore or less, is made to slide up and down, so that the posiis raised, so that the tub may be removed or the clothes put in or taken out.

The shelves N N serve as covers to the tub, and when the machine is in operation they remain down or closed.

Revolving iu bearings fixed to the faces of the standards is the shaft O, with its pulley on a crank, P. As Vthe shaft is revolved, the pins or cams f', with which it is provided, engage With the pins g in the beater-shaft Q, and lift the beaters I, to let them fall again upon the clothes in the tub; and with the motion of the shaft the alternate rise and fall of the beaters continues, and at the Sallie time the tub is revolved by power applied to the pulley D, so that the clothes present constant new surfaces to the action of the beaters.

The spiral springs S, held upon the shafts of the beaters by the yokeT, determine the force of the strokes.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl The combination of the beater-frame H, le vers K L, rod M, having pin c', and the lhinged shelves N, as and for thepurpose specified.

THADDEUS CONSTANTINE HISTED.

Witnesses: n

P. V. TRovINeER, E. E. HEATH. 

